BEI

Business Ecology is a business-technology imperative focused on streamlining business processes, removing waste from technology portfolios, and adjusting resource consumption, to optimize business operations and foster business innovation.

An important enabler of Business Ecology is the use of technology beyond automation. Business Ecology practitioners employ technology to identify, measure, model and drive business change.

The Business Ecology Initiative provides education, advocacy and member programs to enable organizations to achieve Business Ecology success, employ Actionable Architecture™, and carve a path to business-IT integration.

BEI Practice Area Communities

Critical to Business Ecology success is the exchange of real-world stories, practices, lessons and insights amongst the adopter community. Associated with BEI are Communities of Practice for several Business Ecology enablers, including BPM/SOA, CyberSecurity, Event Processing and Green CIO.

The CoPs are advocacy groups comprised of practitioners, service providers and technology vendors, dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the successful adoption, of specific, key business-technology strategies, by the Global 1000, major government agencies and midmarket businesses.

All CoP members belong to BEI and contribute to, and benefit from, the Business Ecology Practice Collection.

Optimization for Innovation

March 22, 2011
Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia USA

As the world economy emerges from a painful recession, organizations are confronted with the challenge of retaining bottom-line diligence, while pursuing market sustaining and gaining innovation, in an environment riddled with uncertainty, increased regulation, consumer reluctance and tighter credit.

This is the “new normal.” To execute in the “new normal,” organizations are seeking new ideas and techniques to optimize business operations and foster business innovation.

At the inaugural Optimization for Innovation conference, executives, senior-level practitioners, experts and thought leaders will share real-world experiences and pragmatic 90-day action items to harvest savings and trapped value from existing processes, resources and capabilities. The conference will consist of a combination of invited guest speakers, keynotes, case studies, presentations and tutorials.

By attending this conference, C-Level and direct reports and senior staff of the COO, CFO and CIO will learn:

  • How leading organizations are optimizing for innovation  
  • Business Optimization Techniques and Practices  
  • Business & Technology Partnership Models
  • Business Performance Analysis and Measurement Practices 
  • Business Risk Identification & Mitigation in a Connected World 
  • Business-Technology Enablers